[TriLUG] Newbie Question about smbclient

[Joseph Tate]

It seems to me that SMTP mounts get stale after some time.  Does that 
still happen?

Vestal, Roy L. wrote:

>If this is something you want to put into /etc/fstab to be a consistant
>mount use the following in your /etc/fstab:
>
>//w2kbox/share  /mnt/linuxdirectory smbfs
>credentials=/path/to/creds,uid=userid,gid=groupid,fmask=775,dmask=775 0 0
>
>This will do a few things:
>
>1st, create a credentials file in the users home directory that is mounting
>the directory. I use the filename smbcreds. In this put the following, one
>per line and chmod 700 the file:
>username=w2kusername
>password=w2kpassword
>
>This is the way you can insure your credentials are NOT found by all users.
>
>Next, the uid is the owner you want the share mounted with, the gid is the
>group you want the share mounted with, fmask is the file mask permissions
>you want (the example is 775(-rwxrwxr-x) ), and the dmask is the directory
>mask of the directories (the example is 775(drwxrwxr-x) ). Your system can
>mount your drives at boot or you can mount/umount a samba share using the
>standard "mount /sharename" "umount /sharename" commands.
>
>Hope this helps.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Robert Baker [mailto:rbaker at smithlaw.com] 
>Sent: Friday, October 11, 2002 11:52 AM
>To: 'trilug at trilug.org'
>Subject: RE: [TriLUG] Newbie Question about smbclient
>
>
>Mark,
>
>Thanks that worked great. Just had to re-login as root to do it.
>
>Is there a way to make this connection persistent? 
>So every time I login it will be there?
>
>Do I have to edit the smb.conf or samba.conf file to accomplish this?
>
>I don't have an smb.conf file in the /etc dir.
>Do I have to create one?
>
>Thanks
>
>
>  
>
>>>>Rob Baker <<<
>>>>        
>>>>
>Webcentric Applications Developer
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Mark Fowle [mailto:mark at thefowles.com] 
>Sent: Friday, October 11, 2002 11:33 AM
>To: trilug
>Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Newbie Question about smbclient
>
>
>If you are connecting to the Windows share from the linux box, its just a
>regular mount -
>
>mount -t smbfs -o username=w2kusername,password=w2kpassword
>//w2kbox/share /mnt/linuxdirectory
>
>
>You will have to user a valid username and password for the W2K box --
>
>Mark
>
>On Fri, 2002-10-11 at 11:27, Robert Baker wrote:
>  
>
>>I just installed RH8 on a testing client machine and would like to
>>connect to a windows share on one of our W2K boxes.
>> 
>>Currently I can do this by using this command:
>>"smbclient //servername/sharename <file://\\servername/sharename> "
>> 
>>Is there a way to "map" this to a directory?
>>I'd like to assign this a path maybe? So I could change dir's to get
>>to the files.
>> 
>>Thanks
>> 
>><> Rob Baker <>
>>Webcentric Applications Developer
>>    
>>
>
>
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